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little mixed girl · Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Location: shin hyesung's bed~

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Squid · Joined: 25 Jul 2003 Location: Sunny Anyang

Can anyone tell me how to unwrap the Family Mart tuna gimbap triangles? Shocked

Yours squidly

the_beaver · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

For entertainment check out Kic-Ker, one of the Kit-Kat knock-offs. The package is about the same design (with two sticks instead of four).

The funny bit is that Kic-Ker wasn't always called Kic-Ker, but something a little more amusing. Somebody discovered this and they changed the package; however, the chocolate bar machine itself, with the name imprint, wasn't changed. . . Buy one. Open it. Enjoy.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

the_beaver · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

billbile · Joined: 10 Apr 2003

It's extremely funny how it is they who layer and coat all the western food with sugar and grease - and then complain that it is too sweet and too 'oily'.

'Hamburgers are too sweet and too oily'. Well of course they are, if you make them as greasy as you possibly can, and use maple syrup as a sauce.

Try some of the fare at at lotteria, to see what I'm talking about.

camel96 · Guest

Yeah there's very few things in the world that are as horrible as salty chocolate donuts. Paris Baguette - rot in hell!
There's a type of potato chip here that is called "Hot Natural Ridges" and then has some horrendously illegible stylized Korean writing on it. Nevertheless they are pretty funky. They're not hot. More sweet and sometimes for some wierd reason they taste like fish. The end.

TheUrbanMyth · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Retired

Homer · Guest

Korean snacks are not so bad once you get used to them.
The doritos here (on the few occasions I have had them) seem to taste the same as back home.
Other chips are sweeter thats true...
They do have snacks that are just not to my liking here.
The again snacks are a matter of personal taste and what tastes like crap to some is a delight to others.
As for Koreans always having to have their own versions gomur...how dare they respond to the preferences of the majority of consumers here Exclamation

Snacks with "korean" versions of them are probably that way because thats what the demand is here. Much like back hoem snacks are tailored to local demand.
The bread thing here can be a disaster however!
They do make decent bread but people here seem to love having beans stuffed into their bread... Confused

Dried squid as a snack also takes some getting used to. I didn't like it a first and now I enjoy it quite a bit.
In the end, Korean offers too many snacks...its a snack festival here, just have to pick your poison.

the_beaver · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

JackSarang · Joined: 28 Jan 2003

The Doritos' are definately different and the fact that you can only buy Nacho Cheese. Korean version is thinner and they taste more like the "Zesty Cheese" brand, not the regular "Nacho Cheese".

Korean Bakeries suck, however one chain Sunmerry does make REAL donuts and they are awesome.. except the location near where I lived stopped making them.. I guess I was the only one who ate them. The problem is they put red bean paste into damn near everything, or some other crap. Paris Baugette does sometimes make real bagels, and they're decent enough.

As for Korean Snacks.. Honey Twists are very good, you get them at Bars alot.. also there is a Korean brand of potato chips in "Kalbi" Flavour and they are very good.. oh and the Korean Sun Chips are pretty tasty.

Also, some Korean ice cream is pretty nice... the packaged stuff.. there is one brand with this dancing pig on the front, its called "Pig Ice Cream" in Korean, its good, but very rich.

camel96 · Guest

Yeah those Nacho Cheese Doritos are great in spite of the differences. I have a half eaten pack slowly going soggy in front of the television even as we speak. God damned humidity!!!!!!

bucheon bum · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Korea's version of sunchips is ok.

What about the potato chips that come in the blue bag? I personally find them to be decent. They're definitly the best Korean version of p. chips I've had.

Cthulhu · Joined: 02 Feb 2003

Just saw those Korean-made chips in "Seaweed flavor." Oh, joy. Shocked

justagirl · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Cheonan/Portland

Okay the closest thing to Western potato chips has just come out.

Seafood-flavored Ridges. They actually don't taste like seafood (go figure) and they aren't laddened with sugar (woo-hoo!).

I bet you can find them right next to those new Lays' seaweed chips...LG25, you are my lifesaver. lol Very Happy

oh--and LG25's are also are carrying chocolate cream Oreos--ohmigosh--these are SO good. Just what you need when you got the chocolate itchies.